American whistleblower Edward Snowden has joined Twitter and has been an instant hit on the micro-blogging site. The only account that Snowden is following is that of his former employer National Security Agency (NSA), the intelligence organization of the United States. Edward Snowden had leaked classified documents of the NSA in 2013.

Snowden’s first tweet – Can you hear me now? has been retweeted over 37,000 times and his account has over 3,00,000 followers till last updated. The number of followers increased by thousands every time we refreshed Snowden’s Twitter page.